On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 08:48:57AM +0100, Michal Simek wrote: > On 22.11.2016 03:29, atull wrote: > > On Mon, 21 Nov 2016, Moritz Fischer wrote: > > > >> Add myself as co-maintainer to fpga mgr framework. > >> > >> Signed-off-by: Moritz Fischer <m...@kernel.org> > >> Cc: Alan Tull <at...@opensource.altera.com> > >> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org> > >> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > >> Cc: linux-f...@vger.kernel.org > >> --- > >> Hi all, > >> > >> Lately we've fallen behind a bit on reviewing patches lately. > > > > Hi Moritz, > > > > drivers/fpga has been in the upstream kernel a year now. Most of that > > time, traffic has been very slow. Recently we had more traffic while > > I was travelling and moving to a new office, both cases leaving me > > with bad network connectivity. Things will probably return to normal. > > I appreciate your passion and all your effort reviewing stuff. I > > don't see a need for two maintainers at this point. > > TBH. I think it is not a bad option. I do normally have backup person > for all repos I do maintain. It doesn't mean that second maintainer does > something but it has all accesses to repos you maintain. > It means if something really happens to you (hopefully not) than this > person can continue in this work without any delay which is not a bad > thing. > It is really just about talking to each other what that second person > will do - probably just review patches as is done now. You can also > learn from each other. > I would like to be involved more in this but unfortunately I don't have > enough time to do it properly. > > Regarding maintaining this repo. It is just standard process. Apply > sensible things, well described and test it. And then send pull request > to Greg based on signed tags and you are done. > Greg should told you what should be the base which you should use for > pull request. Someone is taking patches based on rc1 tag, someone is > rebasing it on the final tag.
Greg doesn't care what base you use, as long as you don't rebase patches. What subsystem does that? I need to go yell at someone... And I take patches just as easily, what ever works best for the subsystem. thanks, greg k-h
